• Overview
• Objective
• Summary
• American Initiatives’ Involvement: How Your Donations Help
• Where We Want to End Up
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Country/ Geographic Area: El Salvador/Latin America

Local Partner: AFCyD

Project Duration:  12 month

Project Cofunder: The Nando Peretti Foundation

Overview

Although in El Salvador, with regard to education, its access is mandatory and free in public primary schools; nevertheless the illiteracy and few years of study persist, it being more evident in the feminine and rural population. This responds to the early incorporation of children to the labor market and specifically in girls because of the same lack of education, they assume family responsibilities at an early age. This is why American Initiatives will work with Asociación de Fomento Cultural y Deportivo (AFCyD) Through Montemira School, they promote a boarding school with secondary and technical education for young women living in rural areas, so that they can have an opportunity to improve their quality of life, finding a good job after graduating or having further college or university education, breaking away from the vicious circle of poverty.

Objective

Contribute to the integral development of 19 young girls from very poor families, by means of obtaining an education and technical qualification for the improvement of their quality of life and that of their families and the communities from where they come from. This main goal includes following aspects:

1. Provide 19 young girls of limited or none economic resources with secondary education and technical training in the industry of hospitality, so that they can obtain a worthy and well remunerated stable job, generating income.

2. Provide the needs for room and board of 19 young girls for one year at the Montemira School.

3. To strengthen the students´ moral values and human virtues so that they become better persons and citizens.

Summary

This project seeks to provide an opportunity of access to a technical education and an integral human development of low income young girls of rural areas of El Salvador in order to improve their quality of life as well as their families and communities.

Our help is focus in two areas:

1.Providing Scholarships to young low income girls

2.Contributing to the school technical improvement and maintenance

American Initiatives’ Involvement: How Your Donations Help

We will partner with AFCyD to provide funding for scholarships and other academic expenses of the technical training and courses. Due to this intervention, it will be possible to contribute effectively in the fight against poverty in El Salvador. When educating the youth and making it possible for them to carry out a professional job, it is contributing in an effective way to solve the social problems the country faces day by day.

Where We Want to End Up

Our desired results for project completion are:

• 19 girls of limited or none economic resources have completed one year of the Technical Baccalaureate Degree.

• 40 % of the girls that obtained the Degree some have continued their studies at the university and others have found a job.

• 19 girls have achieved good health through a nutritious diet and their basic human needs have been covered during the year.

• Increase of self-esteem and personal dignity. Better sense for overcoming difficulties.

• Improvement of their hygiene and overall habits.